Directing
Anders Thomas Jensen
Born 1972-04-06
Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972 in Frederiksværk) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night. He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & The Light (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including Mifune's Last Song (co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), In China They Eat Dogs, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt, and Brothers. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film: the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples. In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award (1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film).
Acting
Writer
Screenplay
The Last Viking
2025
Riders of Justice
2020
The Dark Tower
2017
Love Is All You Need
2012
In a Better World
2010
The Duchess
2008
With Your Permission
2007
Clash of Egos
2006
After the Wedding
2006
Too Fat Too Furious
2005
Stealing Rembrandt
2003
Sweet Dreams
2003
The Green Butchers
2003
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
2002
Open Hearts
2002
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
2002
Director
The Last Viking
2025
Riders of Justice
2020
Men & Chicken
2015
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006
Adam's Apples
2005
The Green Butchers
2003
Flickering Lights
2000
Election Night
1998
Wolfgang
1997
Ernst & the Light
1996
The Monster of Florence
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